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Red Line Overlay Across the Neck and Shoulder

Composite of a side profile photo of a man speaking into a handheld microphone with a labelled skull and cervical spine illustration and a thick red diagonal line across the neck and shoulder

What This Image Shows

A composite image registering a labelled anatomical illustration onto a side-profile photograph of a man speaking into a handheld dynamic microphone, against a concrete wall with a blurred crowd behind. The overlay labels C1 (atlas), C2 (axis), C3 through C7, T1, the hyoid, the first rib, and the clavicle, with two lettered markers A and B. A thick, solid red diagonal line cuts across the neck and shoulder.

The red line is the proposed path. Drawn at that angle it passes across rather than steeply down, which is precisely the point being made: a shot from an elevated rooftop at range should descend, and the annotator is arguing that the described injury pattern implies something much closer to level.

The reliability of the reading depends on how accurately the skeleton has been scaled and positioned over the photograph, and on the subject's head angle at that instant. Both are estimates. This is one of several overlays in the cluster built on the same base illustration, and they are best read together rather than singly. The written arguments are at Wound Trajectory Angle and Trajectory and Wound Mismatch; the firing position is examined at Losee Center.

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